Word: models
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Last week representatives of Canada and the U.S. met in Ottawa for what was, in effect, a renewal of the Hyde Park conference. The Roosevelt-King pact was a ready model for the 1950 planners. It took less than five hours to draw up a new agreement. Its basic terms...
...gleanings that California Auto Bug M. M. (Wheels in His Head) Musselman has picked up in his lively retrace of U.S. automobile history, from linen-duster days to the present. He records all the major milestones, from the first plans drawn by George Selden of Rochester (1877), the first model of the Duryea brothers (1893), the water-cooled engine (1895), the steering wheel (1900), the windshield (1905), the left-hand drive (1909), the enclosed body (1911), the electric self-starter (1912), right down to such latter-day innovations as freewheeling (1930) and automatic transmission (1940s...
Craig is now regarded as a model of decorum, but there is evidence that in his youth he was something of a gay blade. On weekends he used to ride at breakneck speed into the town of San Pedro de Macoris on a noisy, dust-spurting motorcycle, seriously disturbing a Marine captain attached to Santo Domingo's Guardia Nacional, who rode into town at the same time on a mule named Josephine. The mule-rider, Gregon Williams, is now chief of staff of the 1st Marine Division and he and Craig are close friends...
...comedown from his witty and pointed satirical novel about the British in India, The Prevalence of Witches (1948). The Backward Bride seems meant to be profound in a Shavian way when it is not trying to be like Norman Douglas' South Wind. It is as far from either model as it is from the double target roughly caricatured in the description of Professor Lissom. The professor is somewhere south-southeast of Philosopher Bertrand Russell and the plump Bloomsbury hedonist, C.E.M. Joad. All that fidgety Satirist Menen succeeds in doing in his jape is to remind the reader what neat...
...Manhattan's Fifth Avenue recently, an odd-looking, snub-nosed little car drew some mildly curious stares. Few of the onlookers realized that it was a postwar model of the Volkswagen, the car which Hitler once promised to put in every German garage. With an air-cooled rear engine, and a luggage compartment under the hood, it was the first of 600 which Germany is shipping to the U.S. to sell at $1,280 to $1,997. The Volkswagen's appearance was the latest example of a new business phenomenon: the growing revival of export trade in both...